Escaping the Mystery Hotel - Chapter 303
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Episode 303 – Room 204, Mission Room – ‘Hotel Cinema’ (25)
– Park Sae-rom
— Ding dong dang dong!
“Saerom, where is Yuri?”
“… I know.”
“Didn’t I go out with you earlier?”
Don’t keep asking. I also don’t know where my sister went.
…
7th period is already over. Now that regular school hours are over, it is time for self-study.
Yuri, who suddenly went out to the playground during lunchtime saying she had a problem with her secret arts, didn’t come back for a long time after that.
Of course, neither I nor my sister are human, so I have no intention of making an issue of not doing school diligently. However, man-made schools have a more thorough system than you might think!
If a student arbitrarily leaves school early or is absent without permission, there is a high possibility that school teachers will look at related documents, such as the student’s student records, for one reason or another. If this process is repeated, the probability that our disguised identity using various means will be discovered increases.
So, a nine-tailed fox has to live a more thorough life than a human. So that people around us don’t doubt us. Yuri was the one who told me all these facts until my ears pierced, right? Why on earth is my sister acting like this all of a sudden?
First, let me go and make an excuse.
“Yuri said he had a headache?”
“yes. “He said his head hurt a lot earlier and he staggered out of school.”
“Uhm… . “The teacher didn’t hear anything.”
“Maybe Yuri was so sick that she didn’t have time to see the teacher?”
“Maybe so. Saerom, thank you for letting me know.”
I told the teacher appropriately. As expected, Yuri unnie would be in big trouble without me!
*
— Ding dong dang dong!
A bell rang, signaling the start of dinner time.
Perhaps she had really gone home completely, but Yuri did not return to school until this hour. Thanks to you, I had to deal with a very annoying task.
“Well, that Saerom! U, U, U, U.”
“glass. Han Yu-ri. “Just say your name straight.”
“Yuri told me to come to the rooftop at 8 p.m.… . “Hey, where’s Yuri?”
I don’t know either, you idiots! My sister said she was going home, but why did she say I’d see her at 8 o’clock? Stupid kids keep asking where Yuri is during recess!
…
It’s strange, it’s strange.
I think my sister asked quite a few boys to meet her at school at 8pm before she disappeared. The rumor must have spread, as quite a few kids stayed at school until this time and were making a fuss. Some kids were already speculating that Yuri was gathering all the boys and kicking them all at once.
Originally, self-study at night was not mandatory at this high school, so at these late hours, few children stayed and many teachers went home from work. However, thanks to the ‘big event’ created by her older sister, three times more students than usual came to see it and stayed at school until this time.
What on earth are you thinking?
Are you really planning on coming back to school in the evening? why? Are you really going to gather all the boys and kick them all at once? What is left of doing such a noisy thing?
The more we eat human liver, the closer we become mentally to humans. She has eaten hundreds of people over a long period of time, collected nine tails, and even after becoming a nine-tailed fox, she has eaten 72 people. She is really only one step away from becoming a human.
So is it different from usual?
“Aaaah!”
The students who had been dozing off in the classroom woke up in surprise at the scream coming from below.
“what? “What the hell is that sound-”
“Fire!!!”
Something, something is happening!
*
The moment I frantically opened the door and walked out of the classroom, my mouth widened in shock. Fires were already burning here and there in the school, and the flames were getting stronger.
I caught a crazy bastard who was pouring oil from a bucket and lighting it on fire right in front of me.
“you! “What on earth-”
“fire. fire. fire. Light… . “You have to smoke.”
I knew it just by looking at the eyes. This man is out of his mind. He has already been swept away by a powerful fascination, has lost his sense of reason, and is just acting like a puppet.
As I ran frantically down the hallway, the situation was literally no joke. Many adult men, who I had no idea where they came from, were setting fire to the school with distraught expressions on their faces. Several students and teachers tried to stop it, but it was too late as the fire had already broken out everywhere.
“Aaaah!”
“Fire!!”
“Run to the front door!”
“Wow, who on earth did this!”
… Actually, I felt like I knew who it was.
The person who spread the rumor that she dumps boys all at once in the evening.
The person who made the school crowded with students until this hour.
A person who bewitched many people and caused them to set fire to a school.
I know that all of this is possible. I just don’t understand ‘why’ they did this crazy thing!
“… sister.”
My one and only family, the great nine-tailed fox, who is just one step away from becoming a human. Han Yu-ri appeared with fireworks.
Her hands and the corners of her mouth were already stained with blood, and behind her, several desiccated bodies were burning on the floor. She has already eaten several people.
My sister had strange swirls around her face that made it impossible for others to see her, but it wasn’t like I could barely see through that.
“how… . how… .”
My sister smiled slightly at me as I was confused about what to say.
“Saerom, what are you doing?”
“Well, that’s what I ask-”
“You eat too.”
“what? it’s crazy? “If you prey on school students, you will attract public attention -”
“Are you worried about that in the meantime?”
… That’s right.
Since my sister had already burned down the school and killed several people, it was long past time to worry about getting caught. Perhaps because I seemed half-convinced, she handed me her piece of flesh in the nonchalant manner of her older sister.
“Eat one. “This is a bit tough.”
“You say it’s tough and you want me to eat it? “What a good sister.”
The heart with the bone pieces attached was quite tough, but had its own taste. The fragrant blood flavor that comes out every time you chew is definitely attractive.
Fire-cooked meat, which we often eat while living in the human world, is also delicious, but fresh human meat like this also has its own taste. It’s a shame that I don’t have anyone to share these feelings with. But I still have a sister –
“no! “Isn’t this the time?”
“What isn’t it?”
Even as she said that, my sister was frowning and eating soft liver. Strangely, unlike usual, she felt like she was forcing herself to swallow delicious food rather than eating it.
As expected, is my sister getting closer and closer to being human?
“sister! Burning down schools and eating people? Do you think we didn’t do this because we didn’t have the ability to do it? Don’t you know that if you do something crazy like this, it will be all over the news in Korea? “The Vatican is sending an exorcism unit unconditionally!”
“Can’t you see my face?”
I sighed when I saw my sister with her face covered in dark blue energy.
“That only applies to ordinary people! Do you think it will work for the Vatican? “It doesn’t work for me either?”
“Well, I’ve done a lot of other work besides this. So, there is more time than expected until the exorcism team arrives. “Before that, I will become human.”
“Do you think becoming human is the end? So many people are dead and there is no culprit? “Even the Vatican cannot just cover this up!”
“That is if the culprit is not caught. “No matter what it takes, I will grit my teeth and find it.”
“what?”
“What was the original plan? The plan was to make up the number by slowly killing people over months or even years? “At best, they would have killed one person a week, and at most, slower than that.”
Of course. In a country with good security, is it possible to suddenly kill several people and not get caught? If possible, they would have killed about once every two to three months, mainly people who no one would care about after they disappeared.
“How long will it take to fill all 28 people at that rate?”
“Uh, sister… . Why is this happening all of a sudden? At most, it would have been completed in 3-4 years! “Why is it so long?”
“It’s long. It’s too long for me now. Saerom, I have already done the work. Make your decision. “You can either help me and finish it quickly and run away with me, or you can run away alone.”
I was out of breath.
My sister’s magically shining eyes seemed crazier than ever. Am I tired? She persevered for hundreds of years, but when she was just one step away from becoming a human, did she suddenly turn around?
I don’t know. I don’t know why my sister is suddenly acting like this.
But at least one thing is certain. My sister, Yuri, is my only family in the whole world.
We have been together thousands of nights and days. Her older sister, who realized the magic way much earlier than me, protected me countless times when I was much weaker than I am now. So I can’t run away alone.
“Running away alone? “Don’t be stupid and just finish it quickly!”
*
As the two nine-tailed foxes worked together, the work began to come to an end in less than 20 minutes. Of course, I’m still a seven-tailed fox, but someday I’ll become a nine-tailed fox!
Looking at the number of bodies around, it seems like there will be about eight-tailed foxes today. It’s a meaningful story if you can survive even after doing this.
They killed more than 20 students, people who came in from outside, and even several teachers, and collected a lot of their livers. It was human meat that I usually ate every single piece with great care, but today there was so much of it that most of it was left to burn except for the liver, which was essential to raise the quality.
and… . The last liver was in her sister’s hands.
“… This is the last time. “If I eat this, will I become human?”
The moment when the ghost fox, who had eaten 900 humans and gained 9 tails, ate another 99 people and had only one liver left to achieve the purpose of existence, complete humanization.
Tears started flowing endlessly from my eyes.
At this moment, there was no sense of danger from the Vatican exorcism unit running outside. It’s just that my family, my sister, my one and only love, who have suffered countless nights and days… .
I could only feel the thrill of finally arriving at the completion of a great task.
“sister… . congratulations.”
“…”
“really… . A moment like this is coming. really… .”
“…”
“Still, eat it quickly. I think the exorcism team will arrive soon. Or would you like to eat the last liver later? I heard that when you turn into a human, you lose most of your strength. “It wouldn’t be a good idea to eat the last liver after escaping while retaining the nine-tailed fox’s powers.”
“Saerom.”
“sister?”
“You are my escape plan.”
The moment the hand of the world’s strongest nine-tailed fox danced in the air, the pitch-black chains extending from Yuri’s body bound my body.
“Please die for me, taking on my sins.”
I feel an inexplicable magical power from Yuri. She was an absolute force that I could neither understand nor resist, even as a weak demon fox with seven tails, twisting and twisting my body and mind.
I didn’t understand what happened until the very end.
… Maybe he didn’t want to understand.
*
– Han Yu-ri (?)
Suddenly, I came to my senses.
It seems like there was a lot of information in my head… . Before I even remembered what it was, I forgot it at an incredible rate. It’s like the eraser in my head erased everything.
“Kyaaaaa!”
When I suddenly came to my senses and looked straight ahead, it was not the time to be lost in thought. Because before my eyes was a huge monster I had never seen before!
“Ouch! “What the heck is this!”
dog? No wolf? A very big fox? There are so many tails? seven? Are you chained?
As the monster roared and twisted its whole body, black chains began to fall. When I saw that scene, I started running like crazy to survive!
Ahh! What on earth is going on? Something happened to school!
Can you run away? To avoid such a ridiculous monster? Just by looking at it, it’s much bigger than me!
“‘Girl with no presence’ activated!”
what? Do you think something strange just came out of my mouth? Is it an illusion?
There was no time to discuss and measure things. She ran and ran like crazy. I ran and ran through the space filled with acrid smoke.
There were corpses everywhere, tripping over their feet and falling several times, their bodies drenched in blood. The scorching heat burned my hair and uniform everywhere, and I was so tired of rolling around that I looked like a total loser!
“Kyaaaaaaa!”
Is it because I ran as hard as I could even during this time? Even though the roaring and rampaging monster was destroying the building, strangely enough, it couldn’t find me.
Just as I was about to collapse from exhaustion, the exterior wall of the school burst open and people wearing black clothes came rushing in. The moment I saw them, I felt like I was alive, but I relaxed and lost consciousness.
…
“Survivors rescued! Survivors… . “Human, human!”